Arm Twisting and Thumb Screws

Less than one week away from another health care reform deadline. The President has issued an ultimatum, a vote on the health care reform bill by March 18th. Senior Democratic leadership received their marching orders from Obama. But wait a minute, now the deadline has moved again and it’s now March 21st according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The President has postponed his overseas trip. Democrats have been given a few more days to continue with the arm twisting and thumb screw routine on dissenting party members who plan to vote no on the bill. This includes voting yea at the risk of ending political careers when it comes to being re-elected in November.

How about this Pelosi pearl of wisdom.

“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”
~Nanacy Pelosi interview with Rachel Maddow

What a quaint, utopian idea. Does that mean we could all give up our day jobs and become artists, photographers and writers? No, that’s right, someone has to pay for that health insurance.

So what is stopping the Democrats from voting on and passing health care reform if it is such a great deal for America? They are in fact the majority party. It must be that some Democrats are listening to their constituents.

For those Democrats that are not listening, not paying attention, are being naive or just plain ignorant, once again: THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DO NOT WANT THIS HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL.